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Subgenre Sampler
People Will Talk (1951)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn - Enjoyable and sophisticated allegory, disguised as a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, in which a humanitarian doctor (Grant) must contend with the…
History of Mr. Polly, The (1949)- Dir. Anthony Pelissier
Feat. John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins… - Bracing comedy set in the Victorian era follows the various misfortunes of sensitive but ineffectual draper Mills as he sets out in search of…
Quartet (1949)- Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman - Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
Roxie Hart (Chicago) (1942)- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery… - Comedy adapting the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, which was the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical. Ginger Rogers plays the…
Tales of Manhattan (1942)- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers… - A star–studded portmanteau of five tales of life in the Big Apple. Runs the gamut from film noir, to romantic comedy, to high melodrama.
Remember the Night (1940)- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi… - Preston Sturges scripted this forgotten yuletide gem, about an assistant D.A. (MacMurray) who, feeling sorry for a glamorous jewel thief (Stanwyck),…
Bank Holiday (Three on a Weekend) (1938)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, John Lodge, Hugh Williams… - Minor drama with nurse Lockwood heading to the seaside for an illicit weekend only to have her enjoyment tempered by her job.
Angel (1937)- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas - Love triangle between a distracted husband, a neglected wife and an ardent suitor set amid the rigid social norms of the…
O.H.M.S (You're in the Army Now) (1937)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Mills, Wallace Ford, Anna Lee… - Broad comedy with Ford as an American gangster who evades capture by joining the British army posing as a comedian.
Devil Is A Woman, The (1935)- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero - Set during Carnival in turn on the century Seville where a temptress comes between a young revolutionary and his old friend.
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